sengen
German, verb
sengen is spelled S-E-N-G-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written German, the 305,454th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sengen is a German verb meaning “to singe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Sengen is a different word: “gerund of sengen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “heiß sein”.
What does sengen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to singe
noun
- 1
neutergerund of sengen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. heiß sein 2. die letzten Haare und Federn gerupften Geflügels über einer Flamme abbrennen 3. etwas ausplündern und durch Feuer zerstören
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sengen
- sengt present singular third-person
- sengte past
- gesengt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- sengend participle present
- senge first-person indicative present
- sengst indicative present second-person
- sengest second-person singular subjunctive
- senget plural second-person subjunctive
- sengten first-person indicative plural
- sengtest indicative preterite second-person
- sengtet indicative plural preterite
- seng imperative second-person singular
- habe gesengt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gesengt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- senge! imperative singular
- seng! imperative singular
- sengt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is sengen in German?
sengen appears about once in every 28 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).